Edited on: October 24, 2025
Posted on: October 24, 2025
Ka6uki
Verified ownerGames: 886 Reviews: 15
Good Vampire game, but not a Bloodlines
- Is it a good game? -- Yes, it's fun to play. The fighting mechanics rock, The power fantasy is amazing: you are an elder vampire who jumps, glides and climbs from roof to roof - yeah, it's truly amazing! It seems that you can be a fangbanger - hell yeah! But you need to work for it. >:D Feels pretty close to the source material, it's a good Vampire the Masquerade game and probably the most polished and pretty VtM game up to date (fanpatches aside). It runs smoothly. Sometimes it stutters when you open a door or something, typical traversal stutter, but nothing serious. My grafics card does approve it. The grafics rock, the game looks amazing, holy moly, the game even looks like a neon fever dream sometimes and the characters have a personaility and really good voice acting. And my, my, the lip sync is mesmerizing sometimes. Makes me stare at their mouths. ;-) The atmosphere is dense and you can feel the scenery a lot if you want to. Diving into it, playing immersed. - Being a vampire on the hunt for prey. Yeah, I am gonna play the fook out of this game. Could be my GOTY, beacause it is a good VtM game. But I wanna finish it first. The game has got problems though, see below. Choices in conversations seem to matter. You can be a brute or a diplomat. I am not sure yet if it's just an illusion of choice though. The dude, the voice in your in your head, Fabien, is actually a nice addition. I do enjoy his parts. I wonder what the mystery is going to be here. It's got detective parts to solve, these are fun and different. The devs put all the playable clans in the base game, after fans complained about the 20€ DLC to unlock Lasombra and Toreador, that is included now, thank you very much! <3 - Ok, what sucks? (no bloodsucking jokes below! haha) -- It's NOT a Bloodlines game. What a bummer! I wanted that. They should have called it differently. "VtM Nomad" maybe? I don't know. Just a different cool name. This game is is like a package of jelly candies with a chocolate logo on it. Both sweet but different. There are some easter eggs, pointing to Bloodlines 1 and they are fun, but feel a bit out of place. This is a different game. It's also not an RPG. Bloodlines 1 was based strongly on the tabletop game, but this game is rather an Immersive Sim genre with fighting perks to unlock and with NPC relationships. Maybe like Dishonored with a bit Batman Arkham City and a bit of Telltale adventures, plus this and that? Some sidequests are boring after a while and repetetive. Like: "collect enough of the specific bloodtype, to learn get a new vampire disciple", this is basically rinse and repeat all over again. Can be fun, if you are playing a bit immersive, but it's like the same to do everytime. The city is crowded with Anarch thinblood thugs. And they look like exzessively colorful dressed punks. These are not the Anarchs I remember. Feels a bit weird. Did the Anarchs change that much in from old VtM to V5? It's a very cold season with snow everywhere, but a huge crows of people are literally living on the streets during the cold nights. Not very realistic. There are no moving cars, trains or any other vehicles. They are there, but just as immovable assets. Also no underround train - dude, what a missed oppotunity! Well, maybe in a later part of the game? I am still in snowy Seattle, the starting area, after like 10 hours or so. -- So what? "Buy or die"??? -- (pun intended) Soooo, yeah. It's a good VtM action adventure game and actually I love it, but not a Bloodlines game. And that is very disappointing because it's got the branding to be a sequel. The name Blooodlines comes with certain expectations and these aren't fulfilled. I guess thats why people are review bombing the game. It's actually a pretty, solid, modern action adventure though. If you want a new VtM game to slam your fangs into: go for it. If you expect a new original Bloodlines CRPG with lots of black humor, multiple talents and all that jazz. then you will be disappointed. I wished Paradox released both games. This here AND the Brian Mitsoda sequel. that got dropped during development unfortunately. There can never be enough dedicated Vampire The Masquerade videogames, if you ask me.
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